Alain Goulard
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MacroDev N°53 - SEMESTRIAL PANORAMA 2024 #1
Three decades ago, it was believed that the end of the (first) Cold War would herald the “end of history” and the advent of economic globalization dominated by multinational companies, relegating governments to the sidelines. Today, we appear to be back in a political era, with governments...
Published in January 2024
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A scoping study on coastal vulnerability to relative sealevel rise in the Gulf of Guinea
The Gulf of Guinea's low-lying soft coastline is highly vulnerable to coastal erosion and relative sea-level rise (rSLR). Large capital cities and core economic activities are concentrated along the coastline, and potentially exposed to unforeseen risk. Currently, there is limited research on...
Published on 13 Jun 2023
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Strengthening climate services in Africa by incorporating local knowledge
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AFD and Macroeconomic Modelling Tools for the Ecological Transition
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Adapt'Action: Tackling Climate Change Together
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Conflict prediction using Kernel density estimation
Being able to assess conflict risk at local level is crucial for preventing political violence or mitigating its consequences. This paper develops a new approach for predicting the timing and location of conflict events from violence history data. It adapts the methodology developed in Tapsoba (...
Published in March 2022
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Côte d’Ivoire’s Electricity Challenge in 2050: Reconciling Economic Development and Climate Commitments
In closing its economic gap with emerging markets, Côte d’Ivoire will face a substantial increase in electricity demand over the next three decades. Côte d’Ivoire has signed the Paris Agreement that aims to achieve a balance between anthropogenic emissions by sources, including...
Published in November 2021
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Hard Times for Developing Countries: Africa’s Financing Needs in Question
Semestrial Panoramas are special issues of the MacroDev series written by AFD analysts; They present a synthesis of macronomic et socioeconomic analyses of emerging and developing countries. In addition to short, country-focused articles, a thematic section sheds light on broader economic and...
Published on 08 Sep 2021
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Where do social inequalities come from in Côte d’Ivoire?
The LAMPE study on the determinants of social inequalities in Côte d’Ivoire1 shows a persistence of inequalities between 2008 and 2015. In particular, inequalities in participation in the labor market between households headed by women and those headed by men subsist over the period.
Published in February 2021
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Food Systems in Africa
Rapid population growth, poorly planned urbanization, and evolving agricultural production and distribution practices are changing foodways in African cities and creating challenges: Africans are increasingly facing hunger, undernutrition, and malnutrition. Yet change also creates new...
Published in January 2021
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Matthieu Discour : Mobilising all funding for climate finance in the Gulf of Guinea
AFD has placed the implementation of the Paris Agreement at the heart of its mandate. A commitment that accompanies our actions in our different countries of intervention.
Particularly in the Gulf of Guinea, we are targeting the strengthening of State action, adaptation to the effects of...
Published in January 2021
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Collect More, Spend Better? Enhancing fiscal redistribution in West Africa
The pursuit of Domestic Resources Mobilization (DRM) objectives needs to be in agreement with the other SDGs set by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in particular the elimination of extreme poverty (SDG 1) and the reduction of inequality (SDG 10). This requires careful incidence...
Published in December 2020
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Collect more, spend better? Assessing the incidence of fiscal systems and public spending in three Francophone West African countries
The objective of this study is to analyse and compare the incidence of fiscal systems of three western African countries: Côte d’Ivoire, Mali and Senegal. The analysis relies on different data and tools: (1) individual and household level data from three recent household surveys (EMOP2011, ESPS...
Published in November 2020
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Cities and Food Systems: Rethinking the role of markets
This note is based on a research program carried out by AFD since 2014 to assess the role of food markets in African cities and to shift to a more holistic approach of “food systems”, considering many Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Based on case studies led in Rabat-Salé in Morocco,...
Published in October 2020
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Côte d'Ivoire: When debt reduction creates jobs for women
In Côte d’Ivoire, AFD is supporting training and vocational integration for young women via programs to set up micro and small enterprises (MSEs) and develop income-generating activities, including in sectors traditionally considered to be for men. Through the C2D, a mechanism to convert public...
Published in July 2020
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Rethinking Urban Food Supply in the Global South
Challenging misconceptions in order to improve public policy. Many misconceptions exist surrounding urban food supply in the Global South. They result in part from a fragmented vision of the food sector, which generates public policies that are focused either only upstream or downstream. A...
Published in October 2019
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Weather shocks and migration intentions in Western Africa: Insights from a multilevel analysis
We use a multilevel approach to characterize the relationship between weather shocks and (internal and international) migration intentions. We combine individual survey data on migration intentions with measures of localized weather shocks for Western African countries over 2008-2016. A meta-...
Published in October 2019
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Regional Migration and Wage Inequality in the West African Economic and Monetary Union
This paper investigates the impact of regional migration on average wages and wage inequality in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA). We exploit a unique data from a unified labour force household survey which covers natives and migrants in the seven economic capitals of the...
Published in March 2019